Chandler Smith picked up his second win of the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence season in a wild extra time end at North Wilkesboro Speedway on Saturday.
After a late warning compelled the Window World 250 into extra time, Smith restarted on the within of race chief Corey Heim with two laps to go. When the white flag flew, Heim and Smith’s teammate, Layne Riggs, went into flip one aspect by aspect.
However Riggs could not clear Heim, and after a failed slide job from Riggs resulted in Heim spinning, Smith took his alternative to drive beneath Riggs and maintain on to attain the win.
Smith was the quickest truck in Saturday’s apply session, however an unapproved adjustment compelled him to begin on the rear.
“We fought and clawed in the present day,” Smith informed Fox Sports activities. “Needed to begin within the again, and I really feel like at this place, tires kinda matter, however additionally they kinda did not. I did not suppose we had been nearly as good because the No. 11 (Heim), clearly we had a tire benefit on him.
“That final restart, I did all the pieces however the proper factor. My teammate Layne Riggs did all the pieces completely, and we got here out on the proper finish of the stick.”
Heim, who led 162 of the race’s 255 laps, completed seventeenth after the spin. After climbing out of his truck, Heim started strolling down pit street to seek out Riggs and have a dialog.
“He (Riggs) had a chance to win, and he simply wrecked us.”
When Heim finally discovered Riggs, the dialog was quick. Heim’s crew chief, Scott Zippadelli, additionally chatted with Riggs briefly.
In the meantime, it was Riggs’s second straight week of developing only one spot shy of a win, although he was disqualified after his runner-up end at Kansas on Could 10.
“I really feel like he (Heim) received unfastened into 3 and 4 (with two to go) and gave the underside up,” Riggs stated. “We had been aspect by aspect down the frontstretch, I had an enormous run and went backside. I did not fence him, I slid up the monitor and gave him a lane there. We’re at North Wilkesboro on the final lap for a Truck win. I do not really feel like I actually did something mistaken there.”
“I believe roles reversed, it is onerous racing all day. I really feel like everyone got here out of there alive. We had a great end. I actually solely care about me and my staff.”
Riggs, Tyler Ankrum, Daniel Hemric and Grant Enfinger rounded out the highest 5, with Ty Majeski, Gio Ruggiero, Kaden Honeycutt, Kyle Busch and Sammy Smith finishing the highest 10.
Ruggiero received Stage 1, with Enfinger successful Stage 2.
Different notable finishers embrace Jake Garcia, who positioned twelfth, Stewart Friesen, who positioned 14th, Rajah Caruth, who positioned fifteenth, Toni Breidinger, who positioned twenty first, and Brent Crews, who positioned twenty second.
The eleventh race of the Craftsman Truck Sequence season will happen at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Could 23. The North Carolina Schooling Lottery 200 will go inexperienced shortly after 8:30 p.m. ET, with protection on FS1, NRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
